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USPTO to Hold Public Meeting to Discuss PCT improvements

By Donald Zuhn, Kevin Noonan, Chris Singer, Sherri Oslick, and Jason Derry

By Sarah Fendrick -- The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has created a PCT task force to explore methods for improving the Office's role as a Receiving Office, an International Searching Authority (ISA), and an International Preliminary Examination Authority (IPEA). To support the newly created task force, a public meeting is being held on January 13, 2010 from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. (EST) to solicit public opinions on improvement of the USPTO's efficiency, operation, and utilization of the PCT. The Office announced the meeting in a Federal Register notice (74 Fed. Reg. 65101) published on December 9, 2009. To...

Full post as published by Patent Docs on January 12, 2010 (boomark / email).